Making better people

It’s easy to think of cities and forests as being separate things, yet here we live in Greater Melbourne’s urban forest among more than 30 million trees.
Navel gazing

Now it’d be reasonable to think that Cara Cara and Blood Oranges, with their characteristic coloured fleshes, might have similar thing goings on, but you’d be dead wrong.
In the washup

Working in an online grocery can be quite disconnected – but one of the few times we make actual human-to-human contact is when something goes wrong – which often turns into an opportunity to make things right and get to know each other a little bit.
Two in the bush

Starting tomorrow and for the rest of the week the Aussie Bird Count – the avian census that also happens to be Australia’s biggest citizen science event – is on across the country.
Spear in hand (it’s asparagus time)

The weather’s been warming up so it’s been a busy week in Maurie Cafra’s asparagus crop, keeping up with the world’s fastest growing vegetable.
A handful of beans

Early this morning down at Joe’s Garden in Coburg I find Vince Fittipaldi, Joe’s younger cousin, waist high in his broad bean patch.